"Bovine spongiform encephalopathy." . . "Prion diseases." . . "Prion Diseases." . . . "Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform." . . "Films for the Humanities (Firm)" . . "Discovery Communications, Inc." . . "Meat." . . "Cattle." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Presents the ongoing medical detective story of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, which is not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origins and its proliferation through rendering factories." . . . . "Brain snatchers" . . "Mad cow disease" . "Mad cow disease"@en . . "Brain snatchers"@en . "Brain snatchers" . . . . . "Delves into mad cow disease, querying whether an English teen who died in 1995 was the first human fatality of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or yet another victim of kuru, a condition seen forty years earlier in New Guinea. Discusses the ongoing medical story of mad cow disease, noting that it is not a bacteria or virus but a protein called prion with the potential to ruin entire economies and threaten populations. Virologists and veterinarians discuss the protein's possible origin in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie as well as its proliferation through meat-rendering factories, and USDA and FDA experts address contemporary meat-inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for humans and animals."@en . "Was the English teen who died in 1995 the first human fatality of bovine spongiform encephalopathy--\"mad cow disease\"--or yet another victim of kuru, a condition seen 40 years earlier on New Guinea? This program presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion that wrecks economies and threatens whole populations. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans."@en . "(Producer) Presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans." . . . . . . . "(Producer) Presents the ongoing medical detective story of BSE, not a bacteria or virus but a newly discovered protein called a prion. Noted virologists and veterinarians discuss its possible origin in Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie and its proliferation through rendering factories. USDA and FDA experts comment on current meat inspection policies and the development of a diagnostic test for animals and humans."@en . . . . . .